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Choosing the Right Load Balancer

Bit the Chipmunk, AWS Expert published on
6 min, 1089 words

Hey cloud explorers — Bit the Chipmunk here! When an exam question asks “Which load balancer should we use?”, your job is to map requirements → constraints → the right LB. This article gives you the decision patterns, quick rules, and exam clues to choose ALB, NLB, or GWLB (and when to combine them).

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Load Balancers and Auto Scaling

Bit the Chipmunk, AWS Expert published on
6 min, 1019 words

Hey friends! Bit here, ready to zip through one of those essential cloud-nuts: how Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) and Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) work together in AWS. If your exam question mentions “scale based on demand,” “load balancer registers new instances,” or “healthy-target replacement,” you’re in the right place. Let’s dig in.

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Adding a Load Balancer to an Existing App

Bit the Chipmunk, AWS Expert published on
6 min, 1100 words

Hey there, cloud builders! Bit the Chipmunk here, ready to scamper into one of the trickier topics on the AWS Advanced Networking exam: how to integrate load balancers into existing environments. 🐾

You’ve already got running workloads—maybe EC2 fleets, containerized services, or even hybrid systems—and now it’s time to weave in a load balancer for higher availability, smarter scaling, or stronger security. The challenge? Doing it without breaking what’s already working.

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Network Visibility with CloudWatch and Related Services

Bit the Chipmunk, AWS Expert published on
6 min, 1039 words

Hey there, cloud sleuths! Bit the Chipmunk here again—tail twitching with excitement because today’s nut is visibility. 🕵️‍♂️

In the AWS Advanced Networking Specialty exam, it’s not enough to design fast, reliable networks—you’ve got to prove they’re working and spot problems before users do. That’s where CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, and their observability friends come in.

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Network Visibility with CloudWatch and Related Services

Bit the Chipmunk, AWS Expert published on
6 min, 1088 words

Hello cloud explorers! Bit here again, ready to climb higher into the treetops of advanced network design. 🌲 Today we’re diving deep into how you can see, monitor, and automate your global and hybrid network infrastructure using Transit Gateway Network Manager (TGW NM). If you have multiple VPCs, regions, accounts, and on-premises sites, this article helps you tie it all together—visibility is the first step to control.

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